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First impressions of OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

Employers have been waiting with anticipation and the wait is finally over. While it’ll take some time to dive deep into these standards and their implications, there are some clear basics that everyone should understand from the start. Which employers are covered? Employees who work from home.

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Helping Employees During Coronavirus/COVID-19 Pandemic

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Healthcare workers, delivery drivers and grocery store shelf stockers are being overworked while waiters, bartenders, musicians and those in the hospitality industry are dealing with shutdowns, layoffs, and unemployment. All of them are looking to their employers for help to get through this uncertain time. . Paid Leave.

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The deep dive on OSHA’s COVID vaccine mandate

Business Management Daily

While OSHA calls its policy a mandatory policy, you retain some flexibility: Your policy can exclude employees whose health or religion prohibits them from getting shots or employees for whom medical necessity requires a delay in vaccination. OSHA acknowledges this may be difficult to discern, so it’s created a fact sheet for employers.

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Ask the Attorney: Paid leave and telework

Business Management Daily

These questions were submitted by participants of a recent FMLA training program and answered by speaker and employment lawyer, Anniken Davenport. A: Employees generally cannot refuse to take telework when the absence is for school closures if their employer offers them the opportunity to do that telework around the child’s schedule.

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Performance Appraisal & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

It is quite likely that as the situation unfolds, we might see employers continue to rapidly evolve. Six weeks from now, and another six months from then, things will be quite different in the corporate sector. It cannot be dismissed that employment and wage still remain dominant concerns of both employees and employers.

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Shaping Performance & Rewards in Response to COVID-19

HR Digest

It is quite likely that as the situation unfolds, we might see employers continue to rapidly evolve. Six weeks from now, and another six months from then, things will be quite different in the corporate sector. It cannot be dismissed that employment and wage still remain dominant concerns of both employees and employers.

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What comes after the pandemic’s peak? Six trends, three predictions and one sure thing

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

In many jurisdictions, second-wave peaks in new infections, hospitalizations and deaths are yet to come. Direct COVID-19 work-related illness, disability, and death claims are rising in number; psychological injury claims for front-line healthcare and other essential workers are also on the rise. Six Trends 1.